What Are the Most Pressing World Problems?
80,000 Hours is a nonprofit at Oxford University that provides research and support to help talented young people move into careers that tackle the world’s most pressing problems. Below is an article that they continuously update on the world’s most pressing problems, providing data, career pathways, and advice for those who want to work on those issues.
We prioritize problems that are especially large in scale, neglected by others, and solvable — because that’s where additional people can usually make the biggest difference. This list is our best guess at which problems score highest on those factors, and therefore most need more people working on them. This list is constantly evolving, and we expect to revise it over time. There are also many reasonable ways to disagree.
We’ve ranked risks from advanced AI and catastrophic pandemics as top issues since 2016. But with artificial general intelligence (AGI) possibly arriving as soon as 2030, AI-related issues seem even more urgent. Learn more about why we prioritize AI risks.
80,000 Hours’ List of The Most Pressing World Problems
Below is a list of emerging world crises that 80,000 Hours updates continuously. Each problem provides a comprehensive background, summary, actions to reduce risk, and job listings to tackle the problem, all updated daily.
- Power-Seeking AI Systems
- Extreme Power Concentration
- Engineered Pandemics
- Emerging Challenges
- Great Power Conflict
- Factory Farming
- Wild Animal Suffering
- Global Health
- Climate Change
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